Drifting

Birdsong
and morning dew
may find me
here

tearful..

long gone
moments
will lose their pace
drifting
drifting
away..

without
a trace.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Scattered

All I thought
I knew
is nothing..

I've been
dismantled;
scattered

distilled
and refilled..

the shattered
pieces
settling
still.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Clear View

On the edge..
wedged between
hope and fear..

with a clear
view

of
love..

will you
fly

and rise
above.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Release

Concealed
wounds
rise

to be healed..

within the pain;
through
the unease

accepting loss;
embracing
peace..

a time
of revelations
and release.

Poem & Painting by Mairi

Certainty

All  the
self righteous
certainty

divides us..

violates
our innate
goodness..

separates
and enslaves
us..

can the oneness
within
save us.

Poem & Painting by Mairi

Wounded Healer

It's only
in the giving
of a grateful
fractured heart..

that joy will come from living,
and sorrows can depart..

for you're 
a wounded healer
whose essence
will transcend..

restoring and renewing
before this journey's end.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Weightless

In this present
moment
I am

weightless.. 

free
from the burden
of anticipation 

unbound
from the chains
of regret.. 

I let
myself be.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Nothing to Say

I've nothing to say;
a hollow voice
meaningless noise

banal and absurd
words words..

Listen to the silence
quietly confess;
within this emptiness
can a child's eye view

be renewed.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Real

Show me
something
real..

a kindness
an innocence
an essence
a hidden depth;
a forbidden
truth
revealed..

please..

show me
something
real.

Poem & Painting by Mairi

Centrifuge

I've tumbled through
my centrifuge
again..

you know the one
that separates
good from bad;
bad from good..

if only
I could remember

the code
to unload
the debris.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

It’s Alright

Stop
enjoying the pain..
feeding
this
shadow..

blocking
the light..

let your
ethereal beauty
shine..

it’s all fine

it’s alright..
it’s alright.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Undoing

The undoing..

the phoney
altruism;
the schisms..

the do’s - the don’ts;

the lying
by omission..

the blame - game
shaming
control..

the taming
of our
screaming
souls.

Poem & Painting by Mairi